Several states have enacted similiar laws in the past three years targeting protests of pipelines and other fossil fuel infrastructure. Texas' just went into effect.
Illegal and unregulated gold mining that destroys the rainforest and pollutes rivers and groundwater with mercury is a threat that is also driven by markets and greed.
Protest against new mining projects across Latin America are increasingly being quashed, according to NGOs. Mining of the raw materials is also fomenting social and political unrest.
Indonesian companies were given until March this year to disclose their "beneficial owners" under a 2018 presidential regulation, but less than 1 percent have complied.
The project would extract 1.2 million tonnes of sand every year for the next half-century was approved by the Manitoba government without federal review or indigenous input.
The Raggovidda wind park in Berlevåg, Arctic Norway, teams up with Luxembourgian investors and boosts green generation. Some of it will be used to produce hydrogen.
The front of Hornsundbreen is retreating every year and will eventually open a new strait between the Barents- and Greenland Seas through the island of Spitsbergen.
The amount of water flowing down the lower Missouri River this year is approaching the record set during the historic 2011 flood, and another round of flooding is expected this week.
Russians living in the town of Kiselyovsk have one thing to ask from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. They’re desperately seeking asylum in the country, and they’re asking for it based on an environmental emergency.
Emma Guiney has sworn off holiday destinations with mosquito-borne diseases. As the climate changes, they will likely be on her doorstep. Such diseases are one of the many health challenges Sydney faces as its population booms in the next decade.
The UK will experience increasingly extreme weather by the 2070s, including four heatwaves a year and almost twice the amount of current flash flooding, according to new data from the Met Office.
As some world leaders question whether the world is facing a climate emergency, more than a dozen cities are stepping up to tackle global warming and sustainable development and will next week pledge to report their progress to the United Nations.
The Arctic is generally considered an early warning system for the impact of climate change, and scientists are hoping this expedition will raise their understanding of it to a whole new level.
Children, pregnant people and the elderly are the most at risk from extreme weather and heat—but the impact is already felt across every specialty of medicine.
Scientists who work with communities most affected by climate change might find it hard to adjust their air-travel habits, but they can still make meaningful changes.
Although it supports efforts to fight climate change and its impact on the world's oceans, the fishing industry fears it could be harmed by one of the promising solutions: the offshore wind energy industry. A
The auto industry in India is facing its worst slowdown in two decades. Government policies on pollution are pressuring manufacturers to change course quickly and the rise of e-mobility has caught the auto industry off guard.
An agreement could be in place to shutter the E.D. Edwards coal power plant in Peoria County that has been subject to a lawsuit by environmental groups since 2013.
Learn about the laundry list of challenges currently facing corals and coral reefs, as well as why (and how) we might want to conserve and protect them.
President Trump's lies to corroborate his false claim that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama caused a destructive gale of its own. With this attack on science, Trump ripped at a thread of our nation's social fabric—the weather.
The city hasn't yet kicked off one of its most important strategies: pressuring the biggest buildings in the city to stop using so much energy. And there isn't a plan yet for how to reduce the next biggest source of emissions: energy use in people's homes.
The PUC's Pipeline Safety Division announced it is investigating reports of subsidence near several pipelines located near the site of construction work on the Sunoco Mariner East 2 Pipeline in Middletown Township.
